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Monday, December 31, 2012

My Wipocalypse report for December is that there was no progress made on any of these:

Spring Heart - olgamaxden.blogspot.com

Rose Sampler - EMS SAL

3 Kimonos - Joan Elliott's Oriental Collection

Banu - Seba Designs Facebook

Around the World in 80 Stitches - Papillon Creations

Idelia May Rich - Little by Little

Africa - Joan Elliott

Biscornu - can't tell or show you, it's a secret for now

26 Angel Wings for Sandy Hook Elementary School

However these are all of the WIPs to be carried over to 2013 and you've seen them all before. What I do have to report is that I had 29 finishes in 2012, but if you count each of the 6 Black & White figure, one of the 3Kimonos and 3of the 26 Angel Wings it would be 38. Of my original 6 Wipocalypse WIPs 5 have been completed.

Here's a list of all my finishes in 2012:

*(6) Black & White Figures African Women

2nd Soldier Memorial Behold, I Bring You Tiding of Great Jpy

*12 Day of Christmas Black Cat Society

Byzantine Gem Christmas in July

*Counting Calories CS Diva (QR code)

Fraidy Cat His Name is Jesus

I Know God If the Shoe Fits

Leo Libra

Love One Another Lucky Kitty

Merry Stitchmas All XX's (QR code)

I Love You (QR code) Property of Minnie G (QR code)

Random Threads Salem

Santa 2012 There's Snow Place

Biscornu - 1 Praying Angel

*The Champagner

* These are the original WIPs for 2012

I put a picture of each finish in my new 2012 Finishes tab at the top of the page so you can match them up.

In addition to my WIPs for 2013 here are some of the things I really want to start in 2013:

My Needle and My Floss They Comfort Me - Waxing Moon Designs

Stitching Mends the Soul - Waxing Moon Designs

Thine Is The Trick and The Treat - Prairie Moon

BeTrue - Little House Needleworks

To Market - Joan Elliott

159 Midnight Manor - Waxing Moon Designs

Shadows - The Cricket Collection

Just One More X - The Cricket Collection

Well I want to thank each and everyone of my followers and those who just visit occasionally and I wish you all a very safe, Happy New Year. I'll be stitching the New Year in, making some wonderful little xxs.

Friday, December 28, 2012

There has been so much going on that I wasn't able to post
much. I've been stitching squares for the Sandy Hook quilts and working to
finish my biscornu for the exchange next month.
As if that wasn't enough I of course waited to the last minute to do
Christmas shopping and then there was Christmas dinner preparations and
cooking. Finally there was Christmas and
wooooo hooooo! Did I ever hit the mother
lode? First I received issue 198 of The
World of Cross Stitch with the Joan Elliott diary from my very special
stitching angel Karen Newton-Smith in the UK.
It arrived on Christmas Eve, I don’t know how she did it but that was
perfect timing. I also received in the
mail my copy of Cross Stitch Gold with Joan Elliott’s “Father Frost” and the latest issue of Just Cross Stitch. I found, ordered and received copies of JE’s
“Wit and Wisdom”, JE’s Sentiments and Sayings” and “Cross Stitch Angels” from
David & Charles publishing’s. I got them through Amazon for very reasonable
prices.

My Santa daughter gifted me a
three disk set of “Hidden Object” games (my favorites). The Hubby was the ultimate Santa, from him I
got two new audio books, beautiful flosses with bobbins and a storage box; I
got three beautiful kits, a desk top Ott lamp and an EZ Lap Stand.

Our stitch-in group had a special Christmas gathering, we had lots of goodies to sample and Ellen our hostess gave everyone a beautiful Christmas gift. We got crackers from Patricia with surprise gifts and our gold crowns inside. Here are a few of ladies from our group, some actually stitched others ate and Rieka (I hope I've spelled her name correctly) even brought and shared
a finished piece of hers that she had framed in on a trip home to India. The frame is completely hand
carved and stained, it’s really beautiful and my photography doesn't do it
justice.

Well I've kept you in suspense long enough, but before all
of the pictures I want to say welcome to my new followers and thank you to all for
visiting and leaving comments. So I’ll have some stitching progress to
share next time, I’m off to make more wonderful little xxs.

Thursday, December 13, 2012

It is TUSAL time once again and I have really enjoyed sharing my orts and finding different
little jars and containers to display them in.
Here is my display for December 2012.

I found this little glass milk carton at a shop at the
National Harbor and I thought it was just too cute and of course Mr. Cleo
Jenkins took it upon himself to present this month’s TUSAL.

It has been a really long time since I shared a picture of
one of my statues and being that Christmas is on its way, I thought this would
be a little reminder as to what the reason for the season truly is.

This one I call “O Holy Night” it’s by Ebony Treasures, I
can’t remember exactly where I got it but I think it is beautiful.

I've only got a couple of things stitchy to show, since I
finished my Christmas ornaments I've been working on the SAL design by Banu
Demirel I got from Facebook a while ago.
It is supposed to be blackwork
but of course I love color so it is “multicolorwork”. You have to forgive the
bad pictures, I’m old (enough said).

The other design I worked on is “Ida Mae Rich”.

It is being stitched on 36ct Vintage Butter crème linen and
to me you have to make a lot of little xxs to see any progress, but
thanks to my new discovery of audio books I was able to loose myself in a good
mystery and just stitch. I have gone through 5 audio books in the last two
weeks.

Thank you to all of my followers old and new for the comments
you leave, I love them. Before I go I
would like to say that my prayers go out to all of the people affected by the
shooting in the Portland, OR mall and especially to the families who lost loved
ones.

I’m now off to work on a special design for the biscornu
exchange I’m participating in with some very special friends on the About.com
cross stitch forum, so until next time I’ll be making some wonderful little
xxs.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

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Sunday, December 2, 2012

This one was too big to be an actual ornament so it got the full pillow treatment. Well now maybe I can get back to my crazy rotation I have a couple of things that haven't been touched in a very long time and they need some attention too. If you're new here thank you for visiting and maybe becoming a follower and if you've been here before and decided to come back maybe I'm doing something right :-) Thank you too.

I did finish one of the audio books from the library the title is "Midwives" by Chris Bohjalian. I loved this story and the reader made me believe that I was actually there.

I also finished reading the other book I spoke about in another post "Blackwork" by Monica Ferris. I will definitely look for more of her books. I'm off now to make some more wonderful little xxs.